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Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Secrets about our origins could be hiding in a cave in Yemen, says Ella Al-Shamahi 鈥� if only she could get there

Life

Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

Environment

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

Dimetrodon

Life

We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

Berger 1

Humans

The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution

Fossilised worm holes

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

Did the first flower look like this?

Environment

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe

Environment

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

fossils

Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s

Artist's impression of what Daspletosaurus horneri might have looked like

Life

Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout

This new species was a ferocious predator with a sensitive side that reigned across North America until T. rex came along

Life

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

Environment

Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs

Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes